Pope John Paul II greets Cardinal Adam Maida, Archbishop of Detroit, at the Vatican Thursday May 30 1996, during the blessing ceremony of the cornerstone of the new Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, which will be built in Washington D.C. Looking on is the previous Archbishop of Detroit, Card. Edmund Szoka, current Pres. of the Economic Prefecture of the Holy See. (Photo: Associated Press)

German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, U.S. Cardianl Edmund Casimir Szoka and Syrian Cardinal Ignace Moussa I Daoud arrive to celebrate an open air mass in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City in April 2005, in memory of Pope John Paul II. (Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images)